Runner for wheeled vehicles.



No. 736,439 PATENTED AUG. 13 1903 s. J. & J. D. PHILLIPS. RUNNER r011 WHEELED VEHICLES.

APPLIOATIOR FILED JUNE 17 1902.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES A I b j *-c c c/ INVENTORS A Tram/5Y5 UNITED STATES Patented August 18, 1903;;

PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL JULIUS PHILLIPS AND JOHN DANIEL PHILLIPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,439, dated August 18, 1903.

{Application filed June 17, 1902. Serial No. 112,106. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL .TULIUs PHIL- LIPS and J OHN DANIEL PHILLIPS, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Runners for Wheeled Vehicles, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The present invention relates to that class of runners which are designed to be attached to the wheels of vehicles for imparting thereto the capability of service as a sleigh; and the more prominent objects of my improvements are to adapt the runner for ready and secure attachment to the wheel and to qualify it for application to wheels having difierent widths and conditions of tires and fellies.

\Vith the above and other purposes in View the novel runner comprises an extended metal tread or bearing, preferably having an upward curve at the front to serve as a fender, and a pair of independent metal clamping-plates having base-flanges secured to the tread by a connection permitting their transverse adjustment thereon and having properly-located openings for the reception of tie bolts, by which the runner is securely fastened to the lower portion of the Wheel.

There are other important features involved in the novel runner, which will be explained in the succeeding detailed description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of a wheel having my novel runner at tached thereto, the runner being shown in section in the plane represented by one of the sides of the wheel. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the runner and its tie-bolts; and Fig. 3 is agransverse sectional view through the runner and the lower part of the wheel, the section being taken in the plane indicated by the broken line a: at", Fig. 1.

The extended longitudinal metal tread or bearing A of the runner has its sides'a a slightly upwardly curved, as shown in Fig. 3, to materially reduce the friction incurred, yet insure extended side bearing to provide against any tendency to lateral tilting that might be imparted by the varying play of the wheel B. The forward part of the runner curves upwardly to considerable extent to' provide a breast or fender A. The rear part ofthe bearing A may bea'lso upwardly curved, as shown at A in Fig. 1; but it can, if preferred, be simply horizontal.

In the bearing A, at a considerable distance at each side of its longitudinal center, are vertical perforations, which are countersunk at the under side of the bearing for the reception of the heads of the bolts 0, which extend up through and beyond slots '0 therefor in the horizontal base flanges C of vertical clamping plates 0 C, the upper threaded ends of the bolts having nuts 0 screwed thereon to firmly fasten the plates C C to the tread. These plates 0 O, which are made of resilient material, are of the extended longitudinal character illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, so that by reason of their respective curved ends 0 0 extending to and bearing against the inner sides of the forward breast A and rear curved part A said plates possess the additional function of bracing these parts relative to both the tread and the connection of the latter with the wheel. Transverse bolt-openings in the plates 0 are so located as to insure that the bolts d, which pass therethrough and take nuts (1 on their projecting threaded ends, will intimately engage the felly b and tire I) of the wheel, so as to firmly secure the plates ther eto.

As shown most clearly in Fig. 1, the bolts 01 are so disposed that when the felly and tire rest upon the tread A between the plates 0 C, the bottom bolts of the latter being ad-' justed and secured to positively hold said plates against the respective sides of the wheel, felly, and tire, a central pair of said bolts at will firmly confine between them one of the spokes b of the wheel, while the lowest portion of the felly and tire of the latter will be firmly held between said bolts and the tread. The other bolts d are shown as being arranged in two groups at either side of said central pair, there being a group both at the front .and rear of said central pair and the bolts of each group disposed so as to intimately engage the felly and tire at in tier and I 4 outer points thereof. An inner pair of the v and tiresof diiferent thicknesses.

simple and 'IIJGXPGHSiVG, of great and can be conveniently adjusted and re-- tions of said plates bdlts of each group also rigidly clamps a contiguous spoke b of the wheel.

With the runner constructed and connected to the wheel as described the former will serve efficiently, while both will be firmly braced relative to each other and all tend-' ency of the wheel to turn resisted.

The adjustable connection of the plates Q on the tread A, whereby the transverse posi may be varied, admitsof the ready application to wheels haviih fellies of the same ly'and tire of durability,

moved. vWe do not desireto be understood as limiting ourselves to the particular construction I and arrangement of parts disclosed, as the same may be-modifiedor'changed and still be within the spirit of our invention.

Having now described ourinven'tion, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i In a runner fonwheeled vehicles, the combination with the tread A, having front fen- A, and rear fender A and bent upward'ly at its sides a, a, of the resilient ad- 3' ustable and removable clamping-plates O, 0, extending between curved ends 0 C flanges ,o, the transverse slots 0 and transverse bolt-holes, c, passing through the tread A, and c of the flanges 'c", of the plates 0, together with said bolts the slots and the which pass through the said resilient plates 0, and the nuts d, which together with said last-.named bolts, bind the runner to a vehicle-Wheel.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names, in the presence of tw witnesses, this 14th day of May, 1902. i v

' SAMUEL JULIUS PHILL'IPS.

JOHN DANIEL PHILLIPS. itnesses:

JOHN KEIM, J r.,

JAMES M. DALZIEL.

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